CCS

Climate change

Study: Delaying climate action will drive up cost of meeting 1.5C goal

UK academic paper argues cost-benefit analysis remains challenging, but delaying emissions reductions only drives up cost of meeting Paris goals

clock 27 September 2018 • 4 min read

Biomass

Cheers to that: Drax in talks with beer industry over CCS solution to CO2 shortage

Energy firm in talks with British Beer & Pub Association over upcoming CCS trial link up after CO2 shortages for UK industry this summer

clock 13 August 2018 • 2 min read

CCS

Norway seeks bids for North Sea CO2 storage contracts

Norwegian government invites companies to submit commercial bids for contracts to store captured carbon dioxide in reservoirs below the sea

clock 06 July 2018 • 2 min read

Biomass

'Government must provide more certainty': Drax, biomass CCS, and the end of coal

Drax Power CEO Andy Koss talks to BusinessGreen about the firm's new carbon capture project and why new gas is needed to balance the ever cleaner power grid

clock 19 June 2018 • 10 min read

CCS

Study: Captured CO2 can be safely store for 'thousands of years'

New scientific analysis set to boost confidence in carbon capture and storage technology

clock 13 June 2018 • 1 min read

CCS

'Hugely exciting': Drax to test carbon capture technology at North Yorkshire biomass plant

Drax and C-Capture say North Yorkshire pilot could be the 'first of several' in the UK aimed at delivering negative emissions

clock 21 May 2018 • 6 min read

Technology

Offset reset? Climeworks secures 'historic' first contracts for CO2-sucking system

Swiss firm claims 'historic' deals mark the first time a company has been commissioned to permanently remove CO2 from the atmosphere

clock 19 February 2018 • 3 min read

Policy

No region left behind: Can the EU help coal regions navigate the low carbon transition?

Ahead of the One Planet Summit the EU has sent an admirable message to those communities that risk losing out as a result of decarbonisation

clock 11 December 2017 • 7 min read

CCS

The quest to create carbon-negative concrete

New technologies from Canadian companies CarbonCure and CarbiCrete are part of an XPRIZE focused on beneficial uses of carbon dioxide

clock 08 December 2017 • 5 min read

CCS

COP23: CCS industry warns more than 2,000 carbon capture plants needed by 2040

Global Status of CCS Report confirms 17 large scale CCS plants are now operational, but warns surge of development is urgently required

clock 14 November 2017 • 3 min read